Monday, September 21, 2009

Seriously, I had to be the only person I knew growing up that could play Parappa the Rappa for hours on the old Playstation. That was before games sold out for bigger and better things, like the full three dimensions.

I remember the very first level was in a dojo with Chop Chop Master Onion. Way too intense for the first level. He had a friggin' onion for a head (you could tell because of the stink lines).
He wanted to teach Parappa how to rap, which inevitably involved various martial arts moves that had nothing to do with rapping at all. In fact, none of the levels had anything to do with rapping.

Watch the video yet? He blocks about as often as you should in Champions. I'm not talking about tanking, I'm talking about Soloing, doing instances, fighting cosmics as DPS or support, or PvP. Blocking is a huge skill in this game, but because it's a new concept to an MMORPG, people often breeze over the second quest in the game where it teaches you to block. Even more than blocking, everyone should pick up a block enhancer power.

Here are some numbers from the blue laser on a fully Retconned character with no gear. That means all stats are 0.